Officers of the Internal Protection and Anticorruption Service, in concert with employees of the Prosecutor General’s Office, the Special Police Brigade “Fulger” and of the Security and Information Service, in the afternoon of February 27 arrested two persons who are suspected of illegal accessing the databases from the information system of StarNet, IPN reports, quoting a communique of the Ministry of the Interior.

Following a notification from StarNet, the hackers and their home addresses were identified as a result of special investigation measures. The suspects were arrested, while the information systems they possessed were confiscated.

In the same connection, the National Center for the Protection of Personal Data issued a communique, announcing that it also launched an investigation to determine the legality of personal data processing and carried out an unplanned inspection at StarNet. It was established that a security incident related to the processing of the personal data stored in the company’s monitoring systems occurred. The investigation goes on.

The Center also ordered stopping the operations to process the leaked personal data of the clients of StarNet Solutii SRL by unauthorized entities.